_INSPECTION - C1981008 ‎(32)‎

• Permit No: C1981008
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• Inspection Date: 11/16/2009
• Email Name: MLT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE
Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made
during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection
and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action.
This was a Complete Inspection of the New Horizon Mine conducted by Marcia Talvitie of the Colorado
DRMS beginning at 1:40 p.m. on Monday, 16 November 2009. Tom Fry represented the operator,
Western Fuels - Colorado, and was present throughout the entire inspection. Skies were clear and the
temperature was cool. The area had been hit by a storm during the previous weekend, which
delivered rain and some snow.
Permitting (Newt
• Permit Revision No. 6 (PR-06) was received by the Division on the 12th of November.
Availability of Records
• Records were available at the mine office for review. A completed DRMS Availability of Records
form is attached to this report.
Signs and Markers
• Topsoil stockpiles on the Morgan property and at Ponds 011, 012 and 013 were posted with
identifying signs.
Roads
• Roads were wet to muddy throughout the permit area.
BB Road Detour
• The BB Road Detour ("Detour") was designed and constructed to carry vehicular traffic around the
northeastern perimeter of the permit area while mining operations disrupted the original alignments
of BB Road and 2700 Road. Design details for the Detour are illustrated on permit Maps 2.05.3(3) -9
and -10.
• In addition to thru-traffic, the detour has provided access to the CCC West Lateral Ditch diversion
box. Access to the box will continue to be necessary following reclamation of the Detour.
• Reconstruction of BB Road east of 2700 Road occurred in 2008. The southernmost portion of the
Detour (Station 0+00 to -6+50) was reclaimed as part of that project, and the traveling public now
utilizes BB Road and 2700 Road. The Detour has been gated and locked, to prevent public access.
• A contractor has been hired to reclaim approximately '/2 mile of the Detour that is located on the
parcel owned by Dirk Richards (Station - 6+50 to -32+70). Reclamation work was well under way at
the time of the inspection.
• The road surface had been removed, and embankment and topsoil stockpiles located north of BB
Road and west of the Detour had been graded across the Detour alignment (Figure 1). A narrower
roadway, which will provide access to the West Lateral box, had been graded in, hugging the
eastern boundary fence of the Richards property.
• Reclamation of the northern leg of the Detour has involved the retrieval of numerous large
sandstone boulders that had been displaced during construction of the Detour. Because of the
relatively steep nature of the terrain being reclaimed, the contractor has used these boulders to
create a series of terraces along the Detour alignment (Figure 2). The intent of these terraces is to
slow the velocity of any flow across the reclaimed area and prevent erosion from occurring.
• We did not inspect the entire length of the Detour reclamation project. For the portions of the
project that were viewed, it appeared that the contractor had taken care to blend the edges of
reclaimed surfaces into the undisturbed adjacent ground (Figure 3).
New Horizon Mine C-1981-008 16-Nov-2009
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